The Green Party have said their former candidate in the Makerfield by-election has apologised after a report that he had shared a post calling an attack on Jewish ambulances in north London a “false flag”.
Chris Kennedy was announced to be running in the seat for the Greens on Thursday morning, but the party confirmed he had dropped out around nine hours later, citing “personal and family reasons”...
The narrative presented involves a complex interplay between political identity, moral panic, and the mobilization of social media for political effect. The immediate focus on the controversial posts—specifically those touching on antisemitism and ethno-nationalist rhetoric—functions as a mechanism to generate outrage and justify a subsequent political reaction. This leverages the moral weight of identity-based language to frame the political contest not as a policy debate, but as a struggle aga...